System Testing Contracts

System Testing
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for System Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited System Testing over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 451 474 564
Rank change year-on-year +23 +90 -38
Contract jobs citing System Testing 127 248 308
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.29% 0.42% 0.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 0.47% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 196 214
10th Percentile £357 £350 £306
25th Percentile £419 £453 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £521 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.08% +4.25% +25.00%
75th Percentile £566 £610 £588
90th Percentile £641 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £512 £440
% change year-on-year -2.25% +16.25% +20.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 8
10th Percentile - £45.50 £29.38
25th Percentile £20.50 £48.13 £35.00
Median hourly rate £21.00 £55.00 £44.82
Median % change year-on-year -61.82% +22.71% -0.40%
75th Percentile £21.50 £60.63 £48.75
90th Percentile - £62.50 £49.65
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.00 £62.50 £45.14
% change year-on-year -66.40% +38.46% +0.31%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

System Testing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,480 53,073 80,381
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.37% 89.85% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,166 36,804 56,457
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,447 1,751 1,910
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.96 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.11% +44.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

System Testing
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing System Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for System Testing in the UK

System Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing System Testing.

Daily rate trend for System Testing in the UK

System Testing
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing System Testing over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for System Testing in the UK

System Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing System Testing.

Hourly rate trend for System Testing in the UK

System Testing
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing System Testing within the UK over the 6 months to 6 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +8 110 £500 -4.76% 105
UK excluding London +2 87 £500 -2.25% 83
Work from Home +97 51 £500 +2.04% 53
London +62 32 £435 -19.07% 22
North of England +42 21 £500 - 7
South West -6 21 £525 -10.18% 23
Midlands +27 17 £463 +28.47% 22
South East -1 15 £600 +15.66% 22
North West +38 13 £500 - 5
West Midlands +11 11 £500 +29.87% 15
Yorkshire +24 8 £525 +5.00% 2
Scotland +22 7 £475 -5.00% 4
East Midlands +24 6 £363 +0.69% 7
East of England +7 5 £400 -20.00% 7
Northern Ireland +8 2 - -

System Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 9 (7.09%) Confluence
2 2 (1.57%) CMS
2 2 (1.57%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.79%) SAS
3 1 (0.79%) SharePoint 2013
3 1 (0.79%) Skype for Business
3 1 (0.79%) WebLogic
Applications
1 6 (4.72%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (3.15%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.79%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 12 (9.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (2.36%) Markit EDM
3 2 (1.57%) Loan IQ
3 2 (1.57%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.57%) thinkFolio
4 1 (0.79%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.79%) SAP APO
4 1 (0.79%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.79%) SAP EWM
4 1 (0.79%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.79%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.79%) SAP IBP
4 1 (0.79%) SAP LE
4 1 (0.79%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.79%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 21 (16.54%) Dynamics 365
2 12 (9.45%) Azure
3 5 (3.94%) AWS
3 5 (3.94%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 5 (3.94%) Power Platform
4 4 (3.15%) Azure Cognitive Search
4 4 (3.15%) Azure Key Vault
4 4 (3.15%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (2.36%) Apigee
5 3 (2.36%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (2.36%) PowerApps
5 3 (2.36%) Veeva
6 2 (1.57%) WhatsApp
7 1 (0.79%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (0.79%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (0.79%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (0.79%) Boomi
7 1 (0.79%) BrowserStack
7 1 (0.79%) OCI
7 1 (0.79%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.94%) VSAN
2 3 (2.36%) SSL
3 2 (1.57%) 4G
3 2 (1.57%) 5G
3 2 (1.57%) Network Security
3 2 (1.57%) VoIP
4 1 (0.79%) DHCP
4 1 (0.79%) DNS
4 1 (0.79%) LAN
4 1 (0.79%) Skype
4 1 (0.79%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.94%) Relational Database
2 4 (3.15%) Oracle Database
2 4 (3.15%) RDBMS
3 3 (2.36%) Apache Cassandra
3 3 (2.36%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.57%) Power BI
5 1 (0.79%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.79%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (0.79%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 16 (12.60%) JIRA
2 8 (6.30%) Selenium
3 6 (4.72%) Git
3 6 (4.72%) Jenkins
4 5 (3.94%) Maven
5 4 (3.15%) Ant
5 4 (3.15%) JUnit
5 4 (3.15%) Visual Studio
6 3 (2.36%) gulp
7 2 (1.57%) NUnit
7 2 (1.57%) SpecFlow
7 2 (1.57%) WebDriver
8 1 (0.79%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.79%) ClearCase
8 1 (0.79%) ClearQuest
8 1 (0.79%) JMeter
8 1 (0.79%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.79%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.79%) Rational Performance Tester
8 1 (0.79%) TestNG
General
1 34 (26.77%) Analytical Skills
2 30 (23.62%) Social Skills
3 24 (18.90%) Finance
4 14 (11.02%) Public Sector
5 12 (9.45%) Marketing
6 7 (5.51%) Back Office
7 5 (3.94%) Front Office
7 5 (3.94%) Military
8 4 (3.15%) Automotive
9 3 (2.36%) Aerospace
9 3 (2.36%) General Ledger
9 3 (2.36%) Manufacturing
9 3 (2.36%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.57%) Retail
10 2 (1.57%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.79%) Banking
11 1 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.79%) Law
11 1 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 40 (31.50%) Analyst
2 22 (17.32%) Consultant
3 17 (13.39%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
4 16 (12.60%) Developer
5 13 (10.24%) Test Analyst
6 12 (9.45%) Lead
7 11 (8.66%) Business Analyst
8 10 (7.87%) SQL Developer
9 9 (7.09%) Test Engineer
9 9 (7.09%) Tester
10 8 (6.30%) Designer
11 7 (5.51%) Senior
12 5 (3.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 5 (3.94%) Integration Engineer
12 5 (3.94%) Lead Designer
12 5 (3.94%) Product Analyst
12 5 (3.94%) Senior Analyst
12 5 (3.94%) Virtualisation Engineer
13 4 (3.15%) Data Analyst
13 4 (3.15%) Oracle Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.30%) Node.js
2 6 (4.72%) .NET
2 6 (4.72%) CSS
2 6 (4.72%) HTML
3 5 (3.94%) AngularJS
3 5 (3.94%) Flash
4 4 (3.15%) JSON
4 4 (3.15%) XML
5 3 (2.36%) Gherkin
5 3 (2.36%) OAuth
5 3 (2.36%) OpenID
5 3 (2.36%) REST
5 3 (2.36%) RESTful
5 3 (2.36%) SAML
6 2 (1.57%) Oracle Fusion
7 1 (0.79%) .NET Framework
7 1 (0.79%) Middleware
7 1 (0.79%) PySpark
7 1 (0.79%) pytest
7 1 (0.79%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 13 (10.24%) Legacy Systems
2 7 (5.51%) Management Information System
2 7 (5.51%) Product Ownership
3 6 (4.72%) Onboarding
4 5 (3.94%) Clustering
4 5 (3.94%) Mobile App
5 4 (3.15%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 2 (1.57%) CCTV
6 2 (1.57%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.57%) Derivative
6 2 (1.57%) Equities
6 2 (1.57%) Fixed Income
6 2 (1.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.57%) Life Science
6 2 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.79%) EPoS
7 1 (0.79%) NHS
7 1 (0.79%) PKI
7 1 (0.79%) Replication
7 1 (0.79%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 15 (11.81%) Unix
2 10 (7.87%) Linux
3 7 (5.51%) Windows
4 3 (2.36%) Android
4 3 (2.36%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.79%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.79%) Windows 7
5 1 (0.79%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.79%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (35.43%) Agile
2 43 (33.86%) User Acceptance Testing
3 35 (27.56%) Problem-Solving
4 30 (23.62%) Migration
5 29 (22.83%) Software Testing
6 26 (20.47%) End-to-End Testing
7 25 (19.69%) Test Automation
8 24 (18.90%) Scrum
9 23 (18.11%) Integration Testing
10 18 (14.17%) Data Migration
11 16 (12.60%) Validation
12 14 (11.02%) Test Scripting
12 14 (11.02%) Translating Business Requirements
13 13 (10.24%) Requirements Gathering
13 13 (10.24%) Unit Testing
14 12 (9.45%) CRM
14 12 (9.45%) Manual Testing
15 11 (8.66%) Customer Experience
15 11 (8.66%) Customer Insight
16 10 (7.87%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 20 (15.75%) SQL
2 13 (10.24%) Java
3 10 (7.87%) JavaScript
4 9 (7.09%) Bash
4 9 (7.09%) Bourne shell
4 9 (7.09%) Korn
4 9 (7.09%) PL/SQL
5 6 (4.72%) C#
5 6 (4.72%) Python
6 5 (3.94%) PHP
7 4 (3.15%) T-SQL
8 3 (2.36%) C++
9 2 (1.57%) C
10 1 (0.79%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.79%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.79%) VB
10 1 (0.79%) VBA
10 1 (0.79%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 19 (14.96%) Security Cleared
2 18 (14.17%) SC Cleared
3 16 (12.60%) Degree
4 7 (5.51%) ISTQB
5 6 (4.72%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (4.72%) CCNA
5 6 (4.72%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (4.72%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (3.94%) Master's Degree
6 5 (3.94%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 4 (3.15%) Chartered Engineer
8 2 (1.57%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.79%) CCNP
9 1 (0.79%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.79%) ISEB
9 1 (0.79%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.79%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.79%) MCSE
9 1 (0.79%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (11.02%) QA
2 4 (3.15%) Accessibility
2 4 (3.15%) ISO 15022
3 3 (2.36%) Def Stans
4 2 (1.57%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.57%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.79%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.79%) IFRS
5 1 (0.79%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.79%) PMO
5 1 (0.79%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (4.72%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (3.94%) VMware ESXi
2 5 (3.94%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.79%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 1 (0.79%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 5 (3.94%) vCenter Server
2 3 (2.36%) Ansible
3 2 (1.57%) Control-M
4 1 (0.79%) HP ALM
4 1 (0.79%) SCCM
4 1 (0.79%) SCOM
4 1 (0.79%) WSUS
Vendors
1 25 (19.69%) Microsoft
2 21 (16.54%) Oracle
3 8 (6.30%) SAP
4 6 (4.72%) Atlassian
4 6 (4.72%) Cisco
4 6 (4.72%) VMware
5 3 (2.36%) Google
5 3 (2.36%) Murex
5 3 (2.36%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.57%) HP
6 2 (1.57%) Panasonic
7 1 (0.79%) Avaloq
7 1 (0.79%) Avaya
7 1 (0.79%) Dell
7 1 (0.79%) IBM
7 1 (0.79%) Peregrine
7 1 (0.79%) Remedy
7 1 (0.79%) Siemens
7 1 (0.79%) SolarWinds
7 1 (0.79%) Veeam